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82-423: FreeCAD features tools similar to CATIA , Creo , SolidWorks , Solid Edge , NX , Inventor , Revit , and therefore also falls into the category of building information modeling (BIM), mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD), PLM , CAx and CAE . It is intended to be a feature-based parametric modeler with a modular software architecture, which makes it easy to provide additional functionality without modifying

164-489: A 37-hectare (91-acre) park; Jardim Botânico (The Botanical Garden of Porto Alegre ), with some 725 species of vegetation on about 43 hectares (110 acres) of land; and Parque Marinha do Brasil (The Brazilian Navy 's Park ), a vast park of more than 70 hectares (170 acres) which offers a wide variety of sports fields and tracks. The city's cycleway is called the Caminho dos Parques, which at over 5 km (3 miles) long links

246-888: A US$ 83.2 million to support the Integrated Socioenvironmental Program of Porto Alegre. The program will be carried out by the Municipal Department of Management and Strategic Support and will focus on improving water quality in Guaíba Lake and the Cavalhada River, developing urban infrastructure to reduce flood risk along the Cavalhada River, improving the environmental management in the Municipality of Porto Alegre, and promoting efficient municipal water, sanitation and storm drainage services. This program will improve

328-651: A chief industrial and commercial center of Brazil. In recent years, Porto Alegre hosted the World Social Forum , an initiative of several nongovernment organizations. The city became famous for being the first city that implemented participatory budgeting . The 9th Assembly of the World Council of Churches was held in Porto Alegre in 2006. Since 2000, Porto Alegre also hosts one of the world's largest free software events, called FISL . The city

410-480: A pronounced summer maximum in precipitation amounts, the city of Porto Alegre experiences a prominent winter maximum in precipitation values and cloud cover, for the summer season is primarily hot and dry; though evidently high humidity levels often give a distinct mugginess to the air and negatively impacts air quality. According to 1981-2010 averages, Porto Alegre receives an average-total precipitation amount of 1,425 millimetres (56.1 in)Annually. This average makes

492-769: A result of the Antarctic ozone hole , the population is occasionally dangerously exposed to extremely high UV radiation . The winter is mild to cool, windy, rainy and quite changeable, which is also a feature of this time of the year. Usual winter temperatures range from 10 °C (50 °F) to 19 °C (66 °F). In the coldest days of the year the temperature may fall slightly below zero, like in 2012, when it recorded −0.7 °C (31 °F). The summers are very hot, with temperatures that go up to 30 °C (86 °F), sometimes reaching 40 °C (104 °F). Sometimes, summer usually has irregular rains and periods of drought. Fall tends to be as changeable as winter, but

574-645: A role in monitoring pollution levels. A partnership between SMAM, the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul , the State Environmental Protection Foundation (FEPAM) and Petrobrás has created a network of five air monitoring stations in Porto Alegre. By utilizing a Petrobrás product called city diesel, sulphur levels in the air have dropped from 1.2 percent in 1989 to 0.5 percent. Hybrid buses which run on both diesel and electricity are also being considered for

656-533: A separate entity from the municipal government it can make its own decisions on how to invest revenues it has collected, and such decisions are not directly subject to interference from the municipality. It receives no subsidies and makes no payments to the municipality itself. As a municipal undertaking, DMAE enjoys tax-exempt status, which allows it to keep water prices lower. In 2010, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved

738-407: A series of neighborhood , regional, and citywide assemblies, where residents and elected budget delegates identify spending priorities and vote on which priorities to implement. Porto Alegre spent about 200 million dollars per year on construction and services , This money is subject to participatory budgeting, unlike the annual spending on fixed expenses such as debt service and pensions, which

820-408: A showcase showing the different uses and variations that can be given to the logo, immediately, it got support from many members of the community that from that moment began to give their “touch” to the initiative, including designs for CNC machining, 3D printing, stickers, GIFs, animations, FEM models, merchandise, wallpapers, among many other things. At the time of writing this section, the community

902-432: A single logo proposal to be uploaded. With multiple and varied proposals, the community came together in a surprising and broad way, generating designs and discussions on many social networks including Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Discord and the discussion forums themselves. By the time the submission period ended, there were already 46 valid options to choose from. A weighted poll was then conducted that allowed any member of

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984-486: A single vote. Thanks to the FreeCAD community for such an outpouring of enthusiasm for the process (over 1500 people voted). There were many great possibilities, and we know that many of your favorites didn’t make the cut. In the end, only one logo could be selected (until next time…). Enjoy! The winning logo was designed and proposed by Sebastián Tabares ( syta.co ) in the respective forum and Discord thread, accompanied by

1066-467: A special place in my heart). A community vote was conducted to narrow the list to five candidates, and those were presented to the Maintainers team for final decision. That decision was a difficult one: the Maintainers did not achieve a consensus result, and had to simply go with a “majority rules” vote. There were strong opinions about each of the final candidates, and in the end the chosen logo won by

1148-509: A successful experience of interaction between people and the official administrative spheres in public administration and, as such, has gained a broad impact on the political scene nationally and internationally, being interpreted as a strategy for the establishment of an active citizenship in Brazil. The distribution of investment resources planning that follows a part of the statement of priorities for regional or thematic meetings, culminating with

1230-423: Is Teresópolis Avenue, where bottle trees have been planted. The city is covered in green vegetation and Lapacho and Jacaranda are the main species that can be found locally. The trees from the hills are protected. Two environmental conservation areas can be found in this city: "Delta do Jacuí" ( Jacuí Delta ) State Park and Lami Biological Reserve. The urban area has many parks and plazas, making Porto Alegre one of

1312-469: Is a multi-platform software suite for computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), computer-aided engineering (CAE), 3D modeling and product lifecycle management (PLM), developed by the French company Dassault Systèmes . Since it supports multiple stages of product development from conceptualization, design and engineering to manufacturing, it is considered a CAx -software and

1394-407: Is available to 87.7 percent of the city, and 100 percent of the population is serviced by treated water. While in most Brazilian cities the water is supplied by large state companies, in Porto Alegre the Municipal Department of Water and Sanitation Services, (DMAE) is the provider. It is the largest municipal water supplier in the country and enjoys operational autonomy and financial independence. As

1476-514: Is in the process of changing its brand presence in the different resources where the logo is used, such as forums, social networks, wikis, GitHub repositories, etc, in preparation for the release of FreeCAD 1.0; however, there is already an official guideline for the use of the logo in its short, long and mono version; the recommended and prohibited uses, all available in [1] . CATIA CATIA ( / k ə ˈ t iː ə / , an acronym of computer-aided three-dimensional interactive application )

1558-435: Is not subject to public participation. Around fifty thousand residents of Porto Alegre took part at the peak of the participatory budgeting process (compared to 1.5 million city inhabitants), with the number of participants having grown year on year since 1989. Participants are from diverse economic and political backgrounds. Although participatory budgeting appears to continue in the city today, two prominent scholars on

1640-703: Is one of the city's main features. The city of Porto Alegre is located at the northern end of the large coastal lagoon, Lagoa dos Patos in southeastern Brazil. The city lies on the east bank of the mouth of the Rio Guaiba, the estuary of which forms the enormous freshwater lagoon, Lagoa dos Patos. Also joining the Guaíba at Porto Alegre are the Jacuí River , the Sinos River , the Gravataí River and

1722-639: Is operating in Gravataí, located in the Metropolitan Region. Also in this Region but in Triunfo, there is a Petrochemical Pool, and in Eldorado do Sul Dell Computers has established a plant. In the health sector, the three hospitals: Hospital Moinhos de Vento, which is a private, JCAH-accredited hospital, Santa Casa de Misericordia Hospital and Clinicas Hospital , public, are considered among

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1804-405: Is sometimes referred to as a 3D product lifecycle management software suite. Like most of its competition, it facilitates collaborative engineering through an integrated cloud service and have support to be used across disciplines including surfacing & shape design, electrical, fluid and electronic systems design, mechanical engineering and systems engineering . CATIA is more popular, among

1886-485: Is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul . Its population of 1.3 million inhabitants (2022) makes it the 11th-most populous city in the country and the center of Brazil's fifth-largest metropolitan area , with 4.4 million inhabitants (2010). The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian state. Porto Alegre was founded in 1769 by Manuel Jorge Gomes de Sepúlveda, who used

1968-570: Is typically warmer. Spring is usually very rainy, with thunderstorms , strong winds and hailstorms . The climate of Porto Alegre is very affected by El Niño phenomenon, with flooding in some neighborhoods of the city, especially in the islands in the Lake Guaiba. However, a drainage system and a wall along the Historic District were built after a major flood in 1941 that devastated the city, preventing further damage. Snow

2050-427: Is very rare, sometimes confused with sleet . The only snowfall events in Porto Alegre were in 1879, 1910, 1984, 1994, 2000 and 2006, and few of them featured accumulation. However, frost sometimes occurs in the city. Occurrence of radiation fog is common, causing several delays in early flights. Unlike other large Brazilian cities much farther north, notably Brasília , São Paulo , and Rio de Janeiro who observe

2132-495: The Airbus A380 . With the launch of Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE Platform in 2014, CATIA became available as a cloud version. Porto Alegre Porto Alegre ( UK : / ˌ p ɔːr t uː ə ˈ l ɛ ɡ r eɪ / , US : /- ɑː ˈ l eɪ ɡ r i , ˌ p ɔːr t oʊ ə ˈ l ɛ ɡ r ə / , Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈpoʁtu aˈlɛɡɾi, -tw aˈ-] ; lit.   ' Joyful Harbor ' )

2214-558: The Atlantic Forest . Fauna are also diversified, especially in the islands and hills. The Portoalegrense environs include many parks, squares and wooded streets. According to the Köppen climate classification , Porto Alegre has a humid subtropical climate ( Cfa ) characterized by its high variability, but with well-defined seasons and evenly distributed rain throughout the year. The presence of Lake Guaíba contributes to increase

2296-613: The Caí River , all tributaries of Guaíba just before it empties into Lagoa dos Patos. Porto Alegre has a long coastline on the Guaíba Lake , and its topography is punctuated by 40 hills. In the lake, a vast body of water, a maze of islands facing the city creates an archipelago where a unique ecosystem gives shelter to abundant wildlife. The city area concentrates 28% of the native flora of Rio Grande do Sul, with 9,288 species. Among these, there are many trees which are vestiges of

2378-678: The Libre Graphics Meeting in London in 2016. These two exhibitions can bring together both developers and users. In 2020, it was during FOSDEM in Brussels that two of these developers, Yorik Van Havre and Brad Collette made the presentation. The FreeCAD 1.0 version includes several new features, such as the new assembly workbench; fixes for many bugs, including the topological naming problem; unification and correction of many workbenches; very diverse changes and improvements in

2460-478: The Pampas region, the name given to the region of fauna and flora typical of the vast plains that dominate the landscape of the southern tip of Brazil, and parts of Argentina and Uruguay , from where the gaúcho comes, the historical figure of a brave warrior who fought legendary battles and wars in the quest to conquer the borders of the kingdoms of Portugal and Spain in the 16th century. Many wars occurred in

2542-770: The Treaty of Madrid to set up Missions at the Northeast Region of Rio Grande do Sul that was handed over to the Portuguese Crown in exchange for the Sacramento Colony located on the margin of the Plata River . Land demarcation took a long time and the Azoreans settled permanently at Porto de Viamão, which was the first name by which Porto Alegre went. On 24 July 1773, Porto Alegre became

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2624-430: The World Social Forum in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2010. As the second largest city in southern Brazil, it is an important industrial center in the area. It is also a center for gaúcho (the popular name for natives of the state) history and culture, famous for its churrasco (barbecue) and chimarrão (a strong and hot tea prepared from erva mate ). In 2000, the literacy rate was 97%. The high quality of life

2706-488: The World University Games . In 1985, the people of Porto Alegre joined the movement for free elections and one of the largest demonstrations took place in the city. In 2024, the city and other neighboring areas were flooded due to heavy rain. The city is on a delta resulting from the junction of five rivers, officially called Guaíba Lake (popularly mentioned as a river, too). The city dates from

2788-850: The Arch Module. As of late 2020, 3D Models searcher of CADENAS called 3DfindIT.com is integrated into FreeCAD. FreeCAD's own main file format is FreeCAD Standard file format (.FCStd). It is a standard zip file that holds files in a certain structure. The Document. xml file has all geometric and parametric objects definitions. GuiDocument.xml then has visual representation details of objects. Other files include brep-files for objects and thumbnail of drawing. Besides FreeCAD's own file format, files can be exported and imported in DXF , SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) , STEP , IGES , STL (STereoLithography) , OBJ (Wavefront) , DAE (Collada) , SCAD (OpenSCAD) , IV (Inventor) and IFC . FreeCAD's support for

2870-601: The City Council. It hosted the first three editions of the World Social Forum in 2001, 2002 and 2003. The third edition attracted 20,763 delegates from 130 countries, with a total audience of 100,000 people from all parts of the world. A feature of public administration in Porto Alegre is the adoption of a system of popular participation in the definition of public investment, called the Participatory Budget. The first full participatory budgeting process

2952-534: The Civil War also made Porto Alegre their home. According to an autosomal DNA genetic study from 2011, the ancestral composition of the population of Porto Alegre is: 77.70% European, 12.70% African and 9.60% Native American. Source: Planet Barsa Ltda. According to the 2010 population census, the population of Porto Alegre is made up of Roman Catholics (63.85%); Protestants or evangelicals (11.65%); spiritists (7.03%); Umbanda and Candomblé (3.35%);

3034-476: The Farrapos War ended, the city continued to develop and underwent strong urban restructuring during the last decades of the 18th century, driven by the accelerated growth of port-related activities and shipyards. Its development continued over time and the city kept abreast with cultural, political and social events that were taking place within Brazil. The city became known worldwide in 1963 through hosting

3116-568: The Germans, Italians were also first sent to rural communities, mainly in the Serra Gaúcha region. After some decades, many of them started to migrate to other parts of Rio Grande do Sul, including Porto Alegre. Minority communities of immigrants, such as Central Europeans from Poland and Eastern Europeans from Ukraine and Jews ; Arabs from Palestine , Lebanon and Syria ; Asians from Japan ; as well as Spaniards arriving after

3198-624: The Mayor may veto the budget, or remand it back to the Municipal Council of the Budget (this has never happened). A World Bank paper suggests that participatory budgeting has led to direct improvements in facilities in Porto Alegre. For example, sewer and water connections increased from 75% of households in 1988 to 98% in 1997. The number of schools quadrupled since 1986. According to Fedozzi and Costa, this system has been recognized as

3280-703: The Moinhos do Vento, Farroupilha and Guaíba shore parks. The Lami José Lutzenberger Biological Reserve was established in 1975 in the Lami neighborhood of Porto Alegre, named after the local agronomist and environmentalist José Lutzenberger . It was the first municipal reserve in Brazil. The reserve covers 179 hectares (440 acres). It reopened in April 2002 after being closed for more than ten years to allow its ecosystems to recover. The reserve conserves nature and supports research and environmental education. Sewer service

3362-444: The approval of an investment plan that works and activities program broken down by investment sector, by region and around the city. Also according to Fedozzi, this favors: The high number of participants, after more than a decade, suggests that participatory budgeting encourages increasing citizen involvement, according to the paper. Also, Porto Alegre's health and education budget increased from 13% (1985) to almost 40% (1996), and

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3444-531: The aviation and military industries with users such as Boeing and General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp. Dassault Systèmes purchased CADAM from IBM in 1992, and the next year CATIA CADAM was released. During the nineties CATIA was ported first in 1996 from one to four Unix operating systems, and was entirely rewritten for version 5 in 1998 to support Windows NT . In the years prior to 2000, this caused problems of incompatibility between versions that led to $ 6.1B in additional costs due to delays in production of

3526-547: The best in Latin America. The latter are university-affiliated, referral hospitals for the South of Brazil. Commerce is a very important economic activity, with many malls (like Praia de Belas Shopping, Shopping Iguatemi and the smaller though posh Shopping Moinhos). The Metropolitan Region of Porto Alegre, directed to the production of shoes (around Novo Hamburgo) and to petrochemical industries, as well as services. In

3608-401: The capital city of the province, when the administration of Manuel Sepúlveda, who used the fictitious name or pseudonym José Marcelino de Figueiredo, to hide his identity, officially started. In 1824, immigrants from all over the world started arriving, especially German , Italian , Spanish , Polish , Jewish , and Lebanese . The capital city of Rio Grande do Sul is also the capital city in

3690-551: The city is located the Electronics Technology Center (CEITEC), focused on the development and production of application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), today announced the opening of Latin America's first IC design center. To create state-of-the-art semiconductor products for high-volume markets that will be consumed in Latin America as well as exported to global markets . CEITEC S.A will accelerate

3772-523: The city of Porto Alegre was the 10th most populous city in Brazil. In 2010, the city had 269,519 opposite-sex couples and 1,401 same-sex couples . The population of Porto Alegre was 53.6% female and 46.4% male. Porto Alegre is mostly composed of Brazilians of European descent. Its colonization started in the mid-18th century, mostly with the arrival of Portuguese colonists from the Azores Islands. From 1748 to 1756, 2,300 Azoreans were sent to

3854-422: The city slightly wetter than Rio at 1,172 millimetres (46.1 in) yet, to a very small extent, drier than both São Paulo at 1,457 millimetres (57.4 in) and Brasilia at 1,557 millimetres (61.3 in)., Though 1991-2020 normals show annual precipitation figure rising to 1,498 millimetres (59.0 in). The highest recorded unofficial temperature was 42.6 °C (108.7 °F) and the highest official one

3936-448: The city's 16 districts, dealing with many areas of interest to urban life. The meetings elect delegates to represent specific neighborhoods. The mayor and staff attend, in order to respond to citizens' concerns. In the following months, delegates meet to review technical project criteria and district needs. City department staff may participate according to their area of expertise. At a second regional plenary, regional delegates prioritize

4018-482: The community to vote for five logos that, in their opinion, best represented the principles, values and representativeness of FreeCAD, or simply worked graphically in the best way. Likewise, there was a massive participation of the community generating opinions and discussions on the relevance or not of the options. By the time the survey was completed, which was on May 1, 2024, there was a participation of about 1500 people who chose their favorite logos, allowing to choose

4100-585: The company's other software suite 3D XML Player to form the combined Solidworks Composer Player. CATIA started as an in-house development in 1977 by French aircraft manufacturer Avions Marcel Dassault to provide 3D surface modeling and NC functions for the CADAM software they used at that time to develop the Mirage fighter jet. Initially named CATI ( conception assistée tridimensionnelle interactive  – French for interactive aided three-dimensional design ), it

4182-420: The core system. As with many modern 3D CAD modelers, FreeCAD has a 2D component to facilitate 3D-to-2D drawing conversion. Under its current state, direct 2D drawing (like AutoCAD LT ) is not the focus for this software, and neither are animation or 3D model manipulation (like Blender , Maya , or Cinema 4D ). However, the modular nature of FreeCAD allows the user to adapt its workflow for such environments via

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4264-603: The countryside of the State as their first destination. The large rural exodus in Brazil in the early 20th century brought many German-descendants to Porto Alegre and, nowadays, they compose a large percentage of the population. The second largest group of immigrants who arrived in Porto Alegre were the Italians . They started immigrating to Brazil in 1875, mainly from the Northern Italian Veneto region. As

4346-501: The district's demands and elect 42 councillors representing all districts and thematic areas to serve on the Municipal Council of the Budget. The main function of the Municipal Council of the Budget is to reconcile the demands of each district with available resources, and to propose and approve an overall municipal budget. The resulting budget is binding, though the city council can suggest, but not require, changes. Only

4428-479: The end users, for its better surface designing characteristics. That's why it is most widely used in automobile and aerospace industries. Besides being used in a wide range of industries from aerospace and defence to packaging design, CATIA has been used by architect Frank Gehry to design some of his signature curvilinear buildings and his company Gehry Technologies was developing their Digital Project software based on CATIA. The software has been merged with

4510-408: The final logos that would be sent to the maintainer team for their final decision: On May 21, 2024, a final decision had already been made and was announced in all the media and social networks available in the following days, and although there was quite a lot of discussion within the team, it was possible to reach a consensus defined by only one vote compared to the second favorite. In the words of

4592-491: The first half of the 19th century. Religion in Porto Alegre (2010) The first non-Portuguese people to settle Rio Grande do Sul were German immigrants. In 1824, the first immigrants from Germany arrived in Porto Alegre, but they were sent to what is now the city of São Leopoldo (28 km (17 mi) away). From 1824 to 1914, 50,000 Germans arrived in Rio Grande do Sul. Most of these colonists had rural communities in

4674-471: The future. Because Porto Alegre has a ready supply of natural gas , the city's taxi fleet is gradually being converted to it from gasoline. According to the 2022 census , there were 1,332,845 people residing in the city of Porto Alegre. The census revealed the following numbers: 981,251 White people (73.6%), 178,354 Pardo ( Multiracial ) people (13.4%), 168,196 Black people (12.6%), 2,708 Amerindian people (0.2%), 2,306 Asian people (0.2%). In 2010,

4756-473: The greenest provincial capitals in Brazil. The first city squares date from the second half of the 18th century and were originally large public spaces used as food markets. The city has 39 km (9,600 acres) of green space, occupying 31 percent of the city's area. This is an average of 17.6 m per person. More than one million trees line the public streets and SMAM plants an average of 30,000 seedlings each year. The four main parks are: Parque Farroupilha,

4838-468: The growth of Latin America's electronics industry by leveraging Brazil's regional influence, leadership and economic strength. The company will add 60 engineers to its ranks who will design RFID, digital media and wireless communication chips for its fabrication facility now ramping up for production. The total investment by the Brazilian government is almost US$ 210 million. The company is implementing

4920-524: The humidity of the air. The city experiences the most prominent difference among seasons and between temperature extremes among all Brazilian capitals. One reason for that is its much more southerly position relative to the rest of the country, which also contributes for the occurrence of 14 hours of daylight in December and 10 hours in June. Due to a large depletion in the ozone layer over the south of Brazil,

5002-462: The islands of Pólvora and Pombas. Motor vehicles are responsible for the main atmospheric pollutant emissions. The city has the second worst air quality in Brazil, after only São Paulo . The use of new buses along dedicated busways has decreased pollutants as there is less idling time. SMAM (the Municipal Council of the Environment) has encouraged the use of the cleanest fuels and has played

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5084-482: The junction of five rivers, it has become an important alluvial port as well as one of the chief industrial and commercial centers in Brazil. Products of the rich agricultural and pastoral hinterland, such as soybeans , leather , canned beef , and rice , are exported from Porto Alegre to destinations as far away as Africa and Japan. Among the main businesses located in Porto Alegre are Gerdau , Petroleo Ipiranga , Zaffari and RBS . Since 2000, General Motors (GM)

5166-428: The maintainer team: FreeCAD has had the same logo for many years, and in recent years the community told the Maintainers team loud and clear that it was time for a change. Thanks to the hard work of Obelisk and a whole cadre of talented designers, a collection of excellent candidates was assembled that kept the spirit of the original logo, but also evolved it, sometimes in unexpectedly delightful ways (the dino-logo holds

5248-756: The mid-18th century, when colonist from the Azores, islands in the Atlantic Ocean that are part of Portugal, settled in the area, sponsored by the Portuguese colonyimmi. The city was officially established in 1742. Porto Alegre is one of the wealthiest cities in Latin America and one of the most diverse. Its residents includes indigenous Brazilians, afro-Brazilians, immigrants from Portugal , Russia , Germany , Italy , Spain , Ukraine and Poland . There are also significant Arab and Jewish contingents among its population. The Afro-Brazilian population of

5330-516: The most important port of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. The city is also known as "Porto do Sol" (Port of the Sun) and "Cidade Sorriso" (Smile City). More than 70 neighborhoods (see below) are part of the city and two-thirds of the population are concentrated in the Zona Norte (Northern Zone), where most of the economic activity, including the city center, takes place. Porto Alegre was the seat of

5412-520: The process have stated that "after the defeat of the Workers' Party in late 2004, a politically conservative coalition maintained the surface features of PB while returning the actual functioning of the administration to more traditional modes of favor-trading and the favoring of local elites." The participatory budgeting cycle starts in January and runs throughout the year in many assemblies in each of

5494-536: The proprietary DWG file format has been problematic due to software license compatibility problems with the GNU LibreDWG library. The GNU LibreDWG library started as a real free alternative to the source-available OpenDWG library (later Teigha Converter and now ODA File Converter) and is licensed under the GPLv3 . As FreeCAD (and also LibreCAD ) has dependencies on Open Cascade, which prior to version 6.7.0

5576-520: The pseudonym José Marcelino de Figueiredo to hide his identity; the official date, though, is 1772 with the act signed by immigrants from the Azores , Portugal . The city lies on the eastern bank of the Guaíba Lake , where five rivers converge to form the Lagoa dos Patos , a giant freshwater lagoon navigable by even the largest of ships. This five-river junction has become an important alluvial port and

5658-540: The quality of life of the population of Porto Alegre by restoring water quality along the west side of Lake Guaíba and directly benefitting more than 700,000 residents through expanded public sanitation services and urban environmental improvement. The Jacuí estuary contains the Jacuí Delta State Park, which in turn contains the Banhados do Delta Biological Reserve , a fully protected area which covers

5740-473: The region by the King of Portugal to protect Southern Brazil from neighboring invaders. These colonists, mostly composed of married couples, established the city of Porto dos Casais (literally translated "harbor of the couples"), nowadays Porto Alegre. In 1775, 55% of Rio Grande do Sul's population was of Azorean Portuguese origin. Porto Alegre was composed mainly of Azoreans and their African slaves until

5822-438: The share of the participatory budget in the total budget increased from 17% (1992) to 21% (1999). Despite being the pioneering experiment of participatory budgeting, Porto Alegre like many other examples does not have guaranteed sustainability. The positive impact has dwindled since 2004 due to funding changes and decreasing government commitment. Participatory budgeting has been suspended in Porto Alegre since 2017 Located at

5904-454: The state tends to be concentrated in the city. Before this, Porto Alegre was the port of Viamão on the shore of Guaíba Lake. Its previous name was Porto dos Casais (Port of the Couples). and it was initially settled by Azoreans . Many families of settlers came from the city of Rio Grande in the littoral Lagunar region, to the south, a military fortress at that time. Today Rio Grande is

5986-413: The unreligious (10.38%) and people of other religions (3.64%). The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a temple in Porto Alegre. The number of violent crimes has been dropping steadily since 2018. The executive branch is headed by the mayor of the municipality, which includes departments and other public administration bodies directly and indirectly. The legislature is represented by

6068-572: The use of plugins. FreeCAD uses open-source libraries from the field of computing science ; among them are Open CASCADE Technology (a CAD kernel ), Coin3D (an incarnation of Open Inventor ), the Qt GUI framework, and Python , a popular scripting language. FreeCAD itself can also be used as a library by other programs. There are moves to expand FreeCAD in the architecture , electrical , and construction (AEC) engineering sectors and to add building information modeling (BIM) functionality with

6150-505: The user interface and user experience (UI/UX); and a new logo, chosen from five finalists of the public contest created to renew the brand. It was released on November 18, 2024. With the release of FreeCAD 1.0 on the horizon, it was decided to make a logo and branding change. At the request of the project managers, the intent of the update was to iterate on the current branding, rather than completely replace it. A public call for proposals opened on March 22 until April 14, 2024 and allowed for

6232-528: The years before, but the 19th century marked its people, after they fought a long war for their independence from the Brazilian Empire . The Farrapos War started with the confrontation in Porto Alegre, near the Azenha bridge on 20 September 1835. This conflict began the myth of the gaucho who is still praised in songs and celebrated in annual pageants and honored as names of streets and parks. When

6314-544: Was 40.7 °C (105.3 °F), recorded on January 1, 1943, while the lowest official recorded temperature was −4.0 °C (24.8 °F) on July 11, 1918. Porto Alegre lies in a transitional area between the subtropical forest and the Southern Brazilian grasslands (pampa). A number of conservation programmes have been established to protect native trees. Many of the city's avenues have been planted with different tree species . One striking example of this

6396-541: Was developed in the city starting in 1989. Participatory budgeting in its most meaningful form took place in the city from 1991 to 2004. Participatory budgeting was part of a number of innovative reform programs to overcome severe inequality in living standards amongst city residents. One third of the city's residents lived in isolated slums at the city outskirts, lacking access to public amenities (water, sanitation, health care facilities, and schools). Participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre has occurred annually, starting with

6478-448: Was one of the host cities of the 2014 FIFA World Cup , having previously been a venue for the 1950 FIFA World Cup . The official date of the foundation of the city of Porto Alegre is 26 March 1772, by Manuel Sepúlveda, when Freguesia de São Francisco do Porto dos Casais was created and changed a year later to Nossa Senhora da Madre de Deus de Porto Alegre. However, the village started in 1752, when 60 Azorean couples were brought over by

6560-518: Was only compatible with GPLv2, it couldn't use the GNU LibreDWG library as GPLv2 and GPLv3 are essentially incompatible . Open CASCADE technology was contacted by Debian team in 2009, and 2012 got a reply that Open CASCADE technology was considering dual-licensing OCCT (the library), however they postponed that move. A request also went to the FSF to relicense GNU LibreDWG as GPLv2 or LGPLv3, which

6642-695: Was rejected. As of 2014 the 0.14 release of FreeCAD, including the new LGPL release of Open Cascade, the BSD-licensed version of Coin3D, and the removal of PyQT, FreeCAD is now completely GPL-free. However, LibreDWG has not been adopted. FreeCAD is able to import and export a limited subset of the DWG format via the ODA File Converter (the former OpenDWG library). FreeCAD was notably presented at FISL 16 in 2015, in Porto Alegre , as well as at

6724-407: Was renamed CATIA in 1981 when Dassault created the subsidiary Dassault Systèmes to develop and sell the software, under the management of its first CEO, Francis Bernard . Dassault Systèmes signed a non-exclusive distribution agreement with IBM , that was also selling CADAM for Lockheed since 1978. Version 1 was released in 1982 as an add-on for CADAM. During the eighties CATIA saw wider adoption in

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